Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale divorce: 'The Voice' coach opens up; ended up writing 19 songs

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This year seems to be the full of celebrity splits, with Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck announcing their shocking split in June, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams, and more recently, Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez, E! Online reports. Another couple to announce their separation this year were musical artists Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale.

Us Weekly reported in August that following 13 years of marriage, Stefani filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences." The two are parents to three sons, nine-year-old Kingston, seven-year-old Zuma, and one-year-old Apollo. Their divorce was finalized in October.

For the first time since the news broke out, Stefani, who is doing rounds to promote both her new single and her current stint as coach in the ninth season of The Voice, opened up about her divorce during her visit to AMP Radio’s Mornings with Carson Daly, Page Six reports.

"My life basically blew up in my face and so I’m in this new life and it’s pretty awesome, I have to say," the 46-year-old artist said. "Everything just feels new. I just feel inspired. I don’t know how else to describe it."

The singer and songwriter also credited her relationship troubles in opening the floodgates of creativity, saying, "I couldn’t write. It just wasn’t happening and I was so insecure about it and then it just opened up. This channel just opened up."

Stefani knew that it served as inspiration in creating her upcoming record. She said, "I ended up going into the studio. On the way to the studio, that first time, I didn’t want to go. I wanted to be in my bed, crying. And I did cry all the way down Santa Monica. ‘What am I doing? Why am I doing this?’"

Despite having material written in 2014 with collaborators Pharell Williams and songwriter Benny Blanco, Stefani decided to write new ones to represent what she felt in the present moment. She told Entertainment Weekly, "These songs are really natural — they’re from not worrying about what happened or what’s going to happen but about living in the moment, from trying to be present and trying to feel."

Stefani's latest single debuted last week, together with a video, which can be viewed below.

EW reports that Stefani has no official release date yet for her upcoming album, but she has already written enough material for a full-length record. In fact, she managed to write 19 songs in the span of a couple of months following her separation from Rossdale. She said, "I just feel so lucky to make music. It’s a gift to channel true emotions and then capture them. When I finish a song I listen to it so many times — until I can’t listen again — because you learn things about yourself that you didn’t even know you were saying, or needed to say."